Famous People with Name Bette

Bette Davis Midler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bette Davis Midler: is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known to her fans as The Divine Miss M.

Bette Bao Lord            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bette Bao Lord: is a Chinese American writer and civic activist.

Bette Midler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bette Midler: is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (as her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards.

Bette Graham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bette Graham: was a typist, commercial artist, the inventor of Liquid Paper, and mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith.It was very difficult to erase mistakes made by early electric typewriters, which caused problems for Graham. In order to make extra money, she used her talent painting holiday windows at the bank. She realized, as she said, "with lettering, an artist never corrects by erasing, but always paints over the error. So I decided to use what artists use. I put some tempera water-base paint in a bottle and took my watercolor brush to the office. I used that to correct my mistakes."

Bette Mildred Stephenson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bette Mildred Stephenson: is a Canadian medical doctor and former politician in Ontario. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.On August 18, 1978, she was named Minister of Education and Minister of Colleges and Universities. As Minister, she ordered Toronto schools to use the Lord's Prayer during opening or closing exercise instead of silent meditation. Stephenson was not informed of Davis's decision to extend full-funding to Catholic high schools until the policy had already been decided, and was privately opposed. She was returned to the legislature was the largest majority of her career in the 1981 provincial election.